Thinking Critically

Most of us have been educated, or should I say indoctrinated in the public school system. The base of our knowledge of history for example comes from textbooks and lessons approved by organizations like The Board of Education. School boards are responsible for establishing and reviewing educational policies that guide curriculum development, assessment strategies, and teaching methodologies. John D. Rockefeller was involved in developing the public education plan, particularly through the creation of the General Education Board (GEB) in 1902. As to the purpose of public education, Rockefeller is reported to have said: "I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers."

Based on the observations of some authors that have written critically about public education, it appears that J.D. was highly successful at achieving his goal. Former NY school teacher in his first book titled Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto explained how the activities of a public school teacher are in fact counter productive to his goal of a well educated student. He quit teaching after receiving his 5th Teacher Of The Year award.

Alex Newman co-authored The Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children. The byline pretty much sums up the situation. I went through the public indoctrination system, and looking back I find the intention of public education is to “dumb us down.” We have been sold a false narrative.

Since the invention of the internet and social media apps, we now have the ability to communicate with strangers who post videos and make comments on those videos. In some cases, such as with YouTube, certain topics are censored. And others have disclaimers from Wikipedia defending the orthodox view. For example:

“Wikipedia • Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures, notably in the ancient Near East, subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory in the 21st century.”

This disclaimer is placed on every YouTube video that presents the geocentric view of the Universe. One of the things we are taught in public indoctrination centers is to not question authority. If a teacher or an academic gives us a lesson or a book to read, we are to accept it as truth; to question it is generally not tolerated in the classroom. Academics with education and letters after their name have studied these narratives, so you have no standing to question what they are teaching. What credentials do you have?

Some, or even most students in the classroom tend to want to excel at learning. They want to get good grades and never want to be held back to repeat a year they failed at. The report card is a measure at how well one has performed in the class. A good report card is a carrot, a poor report card gets the stick. So there is incentive to get good marks, and even to graduate with honors. So public indoctrination centers have a system of rewards and punishments to enforce compliance. We are conditioned to think alike. So themes contrary to our indoctrination are not entertained by those who have bought into the lessons they have learned in their formal education. To question what they have learned would never occur to them. How can they be wrong if they are in the majority?

Over the years I have adopted a “question everything” posture. Jack Herer wrote the book that got me started down this path, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack covers the history of hemp and cannabis and how they came to be made illegal. Hemp was throughout history an important fiber used for ships sails, ropes, and it had a host of other uses as natures longest fiber. Cannabis had a history of medicinal use. As Jack relates in his book, the purpose for making hemp and cannabis illegal was to pave the way for corporations to use synthetic fibers instead of hemp, and wood pulp for paper instead of hemp. Cannabis was targeted by J.D. Rockefeller as it competed with his desire to profit from patented synthetic pharmaceuticals based on oil. The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was never intended to protect the public, it was intended to protect the oligarchs from competition. Upon realizing this, “questioning everything” became my mantra. I could not blindly trust what the academics or the media put out for public consumption.

Over the years, I have developed a keen sense for determining whether a given narrative is true or false. My first inclination is to doubt that a given story is true. I question the narrative and search for evidence to prove or disprove it. The internet makes this easier than it was before its invention. However these days one has to know how to get around the censors and the “fact checkers” to get at the “gold.” Persistence pays off. Over time you learn to use sources from archive.org, or use search engines like yandex.com to perform your research.

In some cases you can rely on your intuition to help you arrive at truth. For example, on the morning of September 11, 2001, I knew intuitively that “perfectly symmetrical collapse cannot be caused by asymmetrical damage.” What we were shown on TV could not have happened the way it was described. When the documentaries started coming out questioning 9/11, they immediately resonated with me. Those of us who questioned the 9/11 narrative were labeled “truthers” as if truth seeking is something to be frowned upon. This I never understood, but many seemed to blindly go along with labeling truth-seekers as “truthers” and “conspiracy theorists.” It became a predictable, conditioned response when questioning 9/11.

Michael Tellinger is a South African author, scientist, politician, explorer and founder of the Ubuntu Party which supports the supply of free resources across society.

Michael has discovered (as have I) that:

“EVERYTHING WE’VE BEEN TOLD IS A LIE.”

If we approach our research from this point of view, we will be far more often right than wrong. Michael has posted a long list of topics on his web site that he once believed to be true, but has since determined to be false based on his research. Michael went on to conclude, “I am not so certain about any of this. What I do know, is that we have been manipulated and lied to for so long that it has become almost impossible to separate the lies from the truth. I realize that the deeper I scratch, the bigger the lies become.” Critical thinkers are in the minority. Normies, those who don’t question their public indoctrination, are in the majority.

Arthur Schopenhauer says it this way, the more shallow your thinking, the more comfortable you are with surface level life. Those focusing on truth are not antisocial, they’re just smarter than most. Schopenhauer discussed why intelligent individuals often reject social life in favor of solitude. Deeper Truths

I started my Substack channel almost two years ago. I have only accumulated 123 subscribers to date. I am not complaining, as I never expected a channel dedicated to generalized topics of truth to have much appeal for social media subscribers. I know my channel will only appeal to a small audience. Those willing to question the official narratives.

Since COVID, many in the medical community have come to realize we have been sold a bill-of-goods regarding viruses and vaccines. They questioned why off-patent medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were not being recommended by Fauci and company to treat COVID symptoms when doctors like Vladimir Zelenko were seeing positive results when prescribing them. Pharmacies began not allowing the filling of these prescriptions for off-label uses. This was a new twist that caused doctors to question why. Many doctors took to social media to talk about their experience waking up to the changing narrative brought on by the COVID epidemic. I found these wake-up stories to be powerful truth-resonators. These doctors that questioned the “official” narrative were coming from their hearts. They tended towards the love side of the love/fear dichotomy. They were fearless of the consequences from speaking their new-found truth. Many had their careers disrupted for speaking out. Many others did not speak out for fear of being ousted from their lucrative positions.

The point of my channel is to try to lead readers to truths I have discovered. This is not an easy task, as most only accept truth when they are ready to receive it. My headlines are often provocative. A signal that I may be writing about something someone has labeled a conspiracy. Someone not prepared to think about such things will move on without reading past the headline. On the other hand, those who find my headline intriguing may choose to read the article.

Two of the most contentious truths being discussed on social media are Flat Earth and the Holocaust. Anyone who truly wants to know what the shape of the Earth is can perform their own experiments. They don’t need sophisticated telescopes or a NASA sized budget. Anyone with a thousand dollar zoom-lens camera and access to a coastline and an on-line Earth curve calculator can perform their own observations. Many FEers have done this and have come to the very same conclusions. The Earth is flat. Water lays flat. It cannot be otherwise. Our senses detect no curvature, and we feel no motion. Ships disappear from the bottom-up when sailing away from us because of perspective, the limitations of our eyesight. By zooming in on them with a long lens, the ships come back into view because the lens changes our visual perspective. Artists are well aware of the law of perspective and the associated vanishing point.

The Holocaust is another topic that is met with resistance. We have been indoctrinated through numerous books, movies and museums to the notion that 6 million Jews perished in Nazi gas chambers. This is impossible, but because of the conditioning we have received, many believe it without question. In fact to merely question this statistic is illegal in most European nations, and several questioning the myth have suffered prosecution and jail time for their “indiscretions.”

There is no forensic evidence for the Holocaust. If such a crime had been committed, there would certainly be evidence of it that survived the war. All investigations into mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz or any other so called death-camp have come up empty. No forensic evidence exists whatsoever. Anyone interested in diving down the Holocaust rabbit hole should look at Holocaust Handbooks. Bear in mind that truth does not fear investigation.

The Holocaust narrative gives cover to many of the lies and lies of omission we have been told about the war, and about Adolf Hitler. Was Hitler a demon or a saint? Maybe neither, but he certainly was far from the evil demon we have been led to believe. Hitler was loved by the German people for giving them back their self respect, taken from them via the grossly unjust Versailles Treaty. If we believe the Holocaust narrative, we will discount any positive things that Hitler did for his people between 1933 and 1939, of which there were many. Think the Autobahn, the VW, labor-based currency (replacing debt-based currency) and the many family friendly policies of the Third Reich.

On the other hand, we have been led to believe that the Allies were the good guys for defeating Nazi Germany. But were they really that good in comparison to Hitler? We have lots of movies and museums dedicated to the Holocaust myth. But how many movies do we have of the illegal firebombing conducted by the Allies on German cities? And how many do we have about the Eisenhower death camps? Who has read David Irving’s book Destruction of Dresden? Or James Bacque’s book Other Losses? This video touches on both events from the book by Thomas Goodrich titled Hellstorm.

In conclusion, one can lead a person to evidence, but it is up to them to decide whether or not to investigate or consider it. If you live in Europe, you may not want to investigate the Holocaust for fear of being jailed for your action. Especially if you decide to talk openly about your findings, which is natural to do when you discover truth. If you ponder the Earth’s shape out loud, you won’t be jailed, but you may be subjected to a heavy dose of verbal abuse and ridicule by those who want to keep you firmly rooted in the heliocentric “religion.” If you don’t have the strength of character to stand up to it, you may not want to reveal that you don’t believe in the Copernican, heliocentric model.